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if, sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

ROBERT W. SCOTT, OF LEEDS POINT, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOLOUIS N. D. i MWILLIAMS, OF OGONTZ, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTED FABRIC.

Patented April 28, 1908.

Application filed .Tune 5, 1907. lSerial No. 877,421.

To all 'whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. SCOTT, a citizen of the United States,residing in Leeds Point, Atlantic county, New Jersey, have inventedcertain Improvements in Knitted Fabrics, of Which the following is aspecifica-t tion.

My invention relates to a knitted fabric,

either ribbed or (plain, or partly ribbedand partly plain, an having thenumber of its Wales reduced by discontinuing some of them, or havingdiscontinued Wales of one face supplanted by corresponding Wales of theother face, the object of my invention being to prevent running-back7 ofthe terminal stitches of the discontinued Wales. This obj ect I attainin the manner hereinafter set forth, reference being h-ad to theaccompanying drawing, in which Fi ure 1 is an exa gerated vieW of a lainWeb aving the numer of its Wales re uced by discontinuing some of them,the latter Wales having their terminal portions knitted in accordancewith my invention to prevent running-back of the-same, and Fi 2 is asimilar vieW of .a Web, artly rib ed and partly plain, discontinued ribWales of said Web bein su planted by corresponding plain stitc Wa es.

1 of the drawing illustrates a plain web, that is to say one having allof its stitches formed by a single set of needles, and drawn to the same`face of the web, the Wales c being the standing Wales, which arecontinued throughout the Web, and the Wales a1 being the discontinuedWales Which are present only in the Wider or more closely knittedportion of the Web. In order to prevent the 'i running-back of theterminal stitches x of these discontinued Wales, I pull through each ofsaid terminal stitches, a loo y drawn from an adjoining sinker Wale t.en, therefore, any strain is exerted upon a terminal loop tending todraw it through the preceding stitch of its Wale, said loop a; Will betightened upon the loop y, thus forming a knot Which Will prevent anyfurther slipping of the loop and Will thus prevent the runmn back of thediscontinued Wale of which 1t forms a part, the length of the loops ybeing suicient to prevent them from being drawn through the loops :c byany strain Which is likely to be exerted upon the stitches of thestanding Wales a.

Wale loop The Web shown in Fig. 2 is partly ribbed and partly plain, arepresenting the standing Wales of plain stitches which are containedthroughout both portions of the Web, a2 representing the discontinuedrib Wales, and d the plain Wales Which supplant said discontinued ribWales and alternate With the standing Wales a of the web, and it Will beevident that, in like manner, discontinued plain Wales can be supplantedby rib Wales alternating With the standing' Wales. The terminal stitches:c of the discontinued rib Wales shoWn in Fig. 2 are preventedfromrunning back by drawing through them loops y from. adjoining sinkerWales b, in the saine manner as in Fig. 1. The sinker Wale loop y can beformed by transferring the sinker Wale yarn to an adjoining needle, andthen drawing a loop of said sinker Wale yarn by said needle, and at thesame time casting off the stitch already upon the latter, the sinkerbeing cast off on the next operation of t e needle, and the latter beingthen retired from action. As shoWing mechanism available for thepurpose, I may refer to my Letters Patent No. 846,430, dated March 5th,1907.

Although I have shown in Fig. 2 a one-andone ribbed Web, my invention isapplicable to other forms of ribbed Web, and in such cases thediscontinuance of some of the Wales, Whether or not the same aresupplanted by Wales of the other face, may simply be for the purpose ofchanging the character of the rib, the Web preserving a ribbed formthroughout.

I claim r 1. A knitted Web having discontinued Wales Whose terminalstitches are engaged by loops drawn from adjoining sinker Wales of theweb.

2. A knitted Web having discontinued Wales Whose terminal stitches areengaged by loops draWn from adjoining sinker Wales of the Web, saiddiscontinued Wales being supplanted by Wales of another face of the We3. A knitted Web, partly ribbed and partly plain, having discontinuedwales Whose terminal stitches are engaged by loops drawn from adjoiningsinker Wales of the Web, said discontinued Wales being supplanted bylWales of another face of th'e Web.

terminal stitches are engaged by loops drawn from adjoining sinker Walesof the web, said discontinued rib Wales being replaced by plain Wales.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specication, in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ROBERT W. SCOTT.

/Vitnesses:

HAMILTON D. TURNER, KATE A. BEADLE.

